{"id":252577,"date":"2024-06-14T08:45:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T08:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/the-world-is-farming-more-seafood-than-it-catches-is-that-a-good-thing\/"},"modified":"2024-06-14T12:25:42","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T12:25:42","slug":"the-world-is-farming-more-seafood-than-it-catches-is-that-a-good-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/the-world-is-farming-more-seafood-than-it-catches-is-that-a-good-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"The world is farming more seafood than it catches. Is that a good thing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\n      <iframe style=\"margin: 0 auto 20px; width: 100%; height: 100px; border: none; display: none\" data-project-id=\"Yual8er4aaQbafhcldNK\" allowfullscreen=\"false\" allowtransparency=\"\" allow=\"clipboard-read; clipboard-write\" frameborder=\"0\" id=\"ad-auris-iframe\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\">A new report from the United Nations\u2019 Food and Agriculture Organization, or FAO, has found that more fish were farmed worldwide in 2022 than harvested from the wild, an apparent first.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\">Last week, the FAO released its annual report on the state of aquaculture \u2014 which refers to the farming of both seafood and aquatic plants \u2014 and fisheries around the world. The organization found that global production from both aquaculture and fisheries reached a new high \u2014 223.3 million metric tons of animals and plants \u2014 in 2022. Of that, 185.4 million metric tons were aquatic animals, and 37.8 million metric tons were algae. Aquaculture was responsible for 51 percent of aquatic animal production in 2022, or 94.4 metric tons.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\">The milestone was in many ways an expected one, given the world\u2019s insatiable appetite for seafood. Since 1961, consumption&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/grist.org\/food-and-agriculture\/the-world-is-farming-more-seafood-than-it-catches-is-that-a-good-thing\/\"target=\"_blank\">Read full article originally published on grist.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new report from the United Nations\u2019 Food and Agriculture Organization, or FAO, has found that more fish were farmed worldwide in 2022 than harvested from the wild, an apparent first. Last week, the FAO released its annual report on the state of aquaculture \u2014 which refers to the farming of both seafood and aquatic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":252578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.0 (Yoast SEO v20.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The world is farming more seafood than it catches. 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